China has bashed the US with its own “Human Rights Record of the United States in 2014”, argumentatively advising Washington that it should take a look in the mirror before pointing fingers.
Beijing has answered the US with its own … Read the rest
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Le Pen – US no ‘ally or friend’ to France
The leader of France’s far right Front National party, Marine Le Pen, has declared that the United States is not “an ally or a friend” to the French, in light of Wikileaks reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) spied … Read the rest
Silent Circle moves to Switzerland to bypass US surveillance
As US mass surveillance continues to make headlines, one man has had enough. Philip Zimmermann, creator of one of the most widely-used encryption systems, has moved his company to Switzerland, claiming societies need to “roll back” surveillance tactics.
Expressing his … Read the rest
Pressure builds on UK’s surveillance
A group of leading human rights NGOs in Britain are taking the UK government to the European Court of Human Rights over invasive mass surveillance practices they warn violate Britons’ right to privacy and freedom of expression.
The court appeal, … Read the rest
One dead after SUV rams into NSA HQ
An SUV truck drove into the gates of the National Security Agency headquarters on Monday morning. One of the two alleged attackers was shot dead at the scene by security.
Police sources say two more are being treated for injuries … Read the rest
British threaten to halt intel to Germany
British intelligence chiefs have threatened to halt their sharing of information with their German counterparts if Germany goes ahead with a parliamentary inquiry into British and US spying, according German media reports.
The British are worried that German politicians could … Read the rest
UN to investigate GCHQ, MI5 spying at climate talks
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has announced he will launch an inquiry into allegations that British secret service agents spied on foreign governments at two consecutive international climate summits in 2009 and 2010.
Speaking to Danish television, Ban Ki-moon said … Read the rest
Snowden fingers Dropbox, Facebook, Google as hostile to privacy
Edward Snowden has hit out at Dropbox and other services he says are “hostile to privacy,” urging web users to abandon unencrypted communication and adjust privacy settings to prevent governments from spying on them in increasingly intrusive ways.
“We are … Read the rest
Swiss could grant Snowden asylum
Switzerland has reportedly decided it will not extradite National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden to the US if he comes to testify against the NSA’s spying activities, Swiss media said.
It has been revealed that trade secrets from other nations … Read the rest
Merkel orders surveillance of US and UK
Chancellor Angela Merkel has ordered her counter-espionage services to begin surveillance of British and American intelligence gathering in Germany for the first time since 1945 in response to a series of US spy scandals which have badly soured relations between … Read the rest
Typewriters, classical music to end US spying
Politicians in Germany have devised an ingenious solution to combat the threat of eavesdropping by American spies: playing classical music during their meetings.
MPs who sit on the spying committee had become so concerned that US agents might listen in … Read the rest
Germany expels CIA chief in Berlin
Germany is expelling the CIA chief in Berlin in retaliation for the latest espionage scandal.
The expulsion comes shortly after two alleged US agents were unmasked, suspected of acting as double agents within the state security apparatus, and passing secrets … Read the rest
German agent arrested for spying raise fears of serious US rift
A suspected double agent has been arrested in Germany accused of spying for the United States, raising fears of a serious rift between the two allies.
The arrested man, who is a German citizen, is a member of the country’s … Read the rest
India summons top US diplomat about spying
India summoned the top diplomat from the US for the third time about spying.
A new document supplied by Edward Snowden and made public by The Washington Post on Monday showed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party was … Read the rest